Design and implementation of a privacy preserving electronic health record linkage tool in chicago

Conclusions Software that standardizes the assignment of a unique seeded hash identifier merged through an agreed upon third-party honest broker can enable large-scale secure linkage of EHR data for epidemiologic and public health research. The software algorithm can improve future epidemiologic research by providing more comprehensive data given that patients may make use of multiple healthcare systems.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - June 23, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kho, A. N., Cashy, J. P., Jackson, K. L., Pah, A. R., Goel, S., Boehnke, J., Humphries, J. E., Kominers, S. D., Hota, B. N., Sims, S. A., Malin, B. A., French, D. D., Walunas, T. L., Meltzer, D. O., Kaleba, E. O., Jones, R. C., Galanter, W. L. Tags: Research and Applications Source Type: research